Timothée Chalamet Reveals He's Working With Elvis Prep Team for Bob Dylan Portrayal

Timothée Chalamet had high praise for his Dune: Part Two co-host, Austin Butler, in a recent GQ interview.

Butler is joining the cast as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, heir to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, played by Stellan Skarsgård. "He was already talking like Stellan Skarsgård," Chalamet recalls of Butler from day one of the first read-through over Zoom, "I can't overstate how inspiring it was to me personally".

He continued to praise Austin Butler, who received his first Oscar nomination earlier this year for his portrayal of Elvis. "He takes the work incredibly seriously," Chalamet said. "I feel like I hadn't seen someone my age, whether it was in drama school or on set, that did take the work that seriously but then after 'cut' wasn't, you know, in some show of how seriously they took it – and instead is this tremendously affable, wonderful man."

Chalamet revealed to GQ that he has been working with the Elvis team in preparation for portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown from director James Mangold. "There's a wonderful dialect coach named Tim Monich. Vocal coach named Eric Vetro. Movement coach named Polly Bennett. I just saw the way [Austin Butler] committed to it all and realised I needed to step it up," Chalamet said.

Other actors listed to star alongside Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown include Benedict Cumberbatch, Elle Fanning, Boyd Holbrook, Monica Barbaro and P.J. Byrne. The film follows a young Bob Dylan who shakes up the folk music scene when he plugs in his electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.